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I'm contemplating how to get more drop on an SKB 100, 20 gauge that I have restocked. It has a through bolt, of course. However, I have heard that even through bolt stocks can be bent. I'd like to add a little bit more drop and some cast off as well (1/4" in each direction would be ideal). The question becomes, how?

I have bent other guns including a W. Evans and a couple of Cashmores for more drop and more, or less, cast. They are all "conventionally" stocked, in the sense that they lacked through bolts.

In this case, the through bolt is about 6 or 7" long. I'm considering shortening it to about 4.5" long to just behind the point of the comb. That would leave a little more wood behind the bolt to be bent. But still not much.

Is this the normal way to do this?

Thanks